Issues + Research + Inspirations

I was having a great deal of trouble thinking how I would include a half court basketball court into my design, as I had a restricted building footprint and I also couldn't let a basketball court "cut through it" (as it would kill the idea of interlocking spaces). I remembered my tutors mentioning cantilevering a floor to provide extra space and I thought that was a great solution since I couldn't place the basketball in the first floor (as prescribed in the brief) and I needed to make the basketball court flow with the rest of the building. 

So there I was, looking at some awesome cantilever architecture...